Incremental contribution in step-level public goods games with aymmetric players

Article Abstract:

Public amenities such as roads and railways and natural features like rivers and forests are all open to public use, and therefore to exploitation. To test how people react when allowed untrammelled access experiments have been devised using group games. Players were given an amount of money to spend on public goods projects. The results showed that players contributed a similar amount whether they started out with a large or small amount of funding. Their motivations seemed to cancel eather other out.

Public goods

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Decision making under strict uncertainty: an experimental test of competitive criteria

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Decision making under strict uncertainty is studied. Subjects were asked to rank and select alternatives in order to verify existing decision theories while focusing on Hurwicz's 'optimism-pessimism' criterion. Results show that the choices of a number of subjects verified Hurwicz's model. However, no proof was found on the systematic relationship between the model's 'optimism-pessimism' parameter and estimated measures of optimism.

Multiple criteria decision making, Uncertainty (Information theory)

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Positional order and group size effects in resource dilemmas with uncertain resources

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The impact of resource size uncertainty on requests from a common resource pool is analyzed. The positional order protocol is used to determine resource consumption when each member of a group is aware of the number of players that have already used a common resource. Results show that requests were inversely proportional to the players' position in the sequence. This effect also varies depending on the size of the group.

Decision-making, Decision making, Resource allocation

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